Author: Simek, Rudolf ; Jónas Kristjánsson ; & Bekker-Nielsen, Hans ; editors :
Title: Sagnaskemmtun : Studies in Honour of Hermann Pálsson on his 65th Birthday, 26th May 1986
Description: Wien, H. Böhlaus Nachf. 1986. orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xvi,358 pp. Series: Philologica Germanica, 8.. ISBN: 3205066006. Some light stains to covers. VG. ¶ A festschrift containing 24 papers. Includes: Beyond epic and romance / Theodore M. Andersson -- Church and schoolroom and early Icelandic literature / Hans Bekker-Nielsen -- Freyr and Gerðr / Paul Bibire -- On the "Bloð-Egill" episode in Knýtlinga saga / Bjarni Einarsson -- The national dimension of Icelandic / Björn Sigfússon -- Fate as a Deus Otiosus in the Íslendingasögur / Régis Boyer -- Volsunga saga and the missing Lai of Marie de France / Carol J. Clover -- Alcohol into art / Paul Edwards -- Three dream-stanzas in Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar / Peter Foote -- Anmerkungen zur Arbeit des Verfassers der Laxdœla saga / Rolf Heller -- Accessus ad Lucanum / Dietrich Hofmann -- Some episodes in the Flateyjarbók text of Fóstbrœðra saga / Jakob Benediktsson -- The Icelandic horse-epigram / Jón Samsonarson -- The roots of the sagas / Jó nas Kristjánsson -- Additional Icelandic analogues to Beowulf / Peter A. Jorgensen -- Some stylistic features of the classical Icelandic sagas / Dora Macek -- Approaches to the structure of Eyrbyggja saga / Rory McTurk -- Lost tales of Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir / Ólafur Halldórsson -- Elusive Elysia, or, Which way to Glæsisvellir? / Rudolf Simek -- Bóklausir menn / Stefán Karlsson -- Wielders and wasters of words / Paul Beekman Taylor -- Die Wiedergabe einiger weltlicher Standes- und Berufsbezeichnungen in der frühen lateinisch-altwestnordischen Übersetzungsliteratur / Ernst Walter --Siðaskipti / Gerd Wolfgang Weber / Vorbildliches Verhalten? / Günter Zimmermann.

Keywords: 3205066006 Icelandic Literature, Old Norse, Medieval Iceland, Literary Criticism, , , , ,